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loosely, adv.|ˈluːslɪ|
Forms: 4 loselyche, lousely, 4–5 loseliche, 5 losly, 5–6 losely, 6 lowslie, lowsel(e)y, lously, loocely, loos(e)lye, 7 loosly, 6– loosely.
[f. loose a. + -ly2.]
In a loose manner.
1. Not tightly, slackly; without tightness, closeness, rigidity, or cohesion. Also fig.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 82 Bynde it [a ligature] losely at þe mouþ of þe wounde. Ibid. 146 Þe seuenþe is bounde loseliche to þe first spondile. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) i. xii, The more þat this desyre is the faster is Iesu knytte to the soule: The lesse that this desyre is þe loslyer is he knytte. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 37 It is a worlde to see how lowsely they shall be sowed,..euerie stitch an inch or two from another. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 26 b/2 It fasteneth the gummes vnto the teethe, when as they hange looselye theron. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 425 Part loosly wing the Region, part more wise In common, rang'd in figure wedge thir way. 1811Latham Facts conc. Diabetes 87 Matters capable of such fermentation..have their sugar so weakly and loosely oxygenated as to be again readily evolved by the secretory action of the kidneys. 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 64 Articles of wool which were so loosely manufactured, that they could be easily converted again into wool. 1860B. Jowett in Ess. & Rev. 389 In modern times..all languages sit loosely on thought. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 81 Not so loosely thoughts were linked, Six weeks since.
2. Without care, strictness, or rigour; not strictly; carelessly, negligently, laxly. Said esp. of thought or its expression.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 213 For he is in þe lowest of heuene..And wel loselyche lolleth þere by þe lawe of holy⁓cherche. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 163 But Emme lousely i-kept [L. laxius custodita], wroot unto þe bisshoppis of Engelond. 1566Drant Horace's Sat. ii. i. E vij b, Some thynke my satyres too to tarte to kepe no constant lawe, And some have thought it lously pende. 1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. III.) 6 Though you write nothing loosly, yet you write nothing with streyning. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §106 The..revenue had been very loosely managed. 1793Beddoes in Observ. Nature Demonstr. Evid. 133, I have already loosely observed, that their system supposes [etc.]. 1824Scott Fam. Lett. 14 Nov. (1894) II. xx. 222 All men talk loosely in their ordinary conversation. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. Introd. 19 The laws were often loosely administered by incompetent judges. 1885Leeds Mercury 31 Jan. 6/5 The ideas thus loosely expressed. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 448 In this country the word ‘stammering’ is used loosely for all forms of speech defect.
3. Without moral strictness; immorally.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xi. 20–24 Ye be not geuen to riot and excesse so openly and loosly. 1605Camden Rem., Wise Sp. 188 In this age when a Bishop living loosely was charged that his conversation was not according to the Apostles lives, he [etc.]. 1699Dryden in Four C. Eng. Lett. 140 Licence which Mrs. Behn allow'd herself, of writing loosely, and giving..some scandall to the modesty of her sex. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 36 He was..a far more dangerous enemy of the Church than..if he had..lived as loosely as Wilmot.
4. Without being confined or restrained. Now rare.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 51 Her golden locks for hast were loosely shed About her eares. c1611Chapman Iliad xxi. 437 Ioues wife could put on no such raines, But spake thus loosly. 1633P. Fletcher Poet. Misc. 75 Or as the hairs which deck their wanton heads, Which loosely fly, and play with every winde. 1635–56Cowley Davideis iii. 261 The wind admir'd, which her hair loosely bore, Why it grew stiff, and now would play no more. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam x. xxv, Sheathed in resplendent arms, or loosely dight To luxury. 1892Tennyson Akbar's Dream, And what are forms? Fair garments, plain or rich, and fitting close Or flying looselier.
5. With free evacuation of the bowels.
1612Dekker If it be not good Wks. 1873 III. 288 Your guilded pills..slip so smoothly doune Your Subiects throates, that all (vpon a sudden) Are loosely giuen. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 741 If the bowels are only opened once loosely he takes but one dose.
6. Comb. (with ppl. adjs.), as loosely-adherent, loosely-branched, loosely-fitting, loosely-knit, loosely-packed, loosely-woven, etc. Cf. loose-knit adj. s.v. loose a. 10 d.
1746J. Warton Ode to Fancy 9 O Nymph, with loosely-flowing hair. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xix. §149 (1875) 403 Not unfrequently a piece of trap [rock] may be found reduced..to a number of loosely-adherent coats, like those of an onion. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 299 A loosely-branched tree. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 903 [Bacilli] occasionally in loosely packed bundles. 1935Huxley & Haddon We Europeans i. 13 It [sc. group-sentiment] has spread beyond the family, the tribe, the loosely-knit federation of tribes to the yet more extensive aggregate, the nation. 1957C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xlvi. 153 It [sc. the Decree of the Central Committee] replaced the loosely-knit Union of Proletarian Writers by a single Union of Soviet Writers. |